Just passed my AOSB and am in my final few months of uni so I was intending to start at Sandhurst next Jan. However, I'm wondering if it's worth my while taking some time out before that, joining a TA unit as a jock and going out on HERRICK to get some experience?

good luck, you'll be looking at well over a year before your even eligible (assuming you are not yet in the TA and assuming you want to go infanty). Look in another thread on Just TA and they are talking about being class 1 infanteer to go on the next herrick.

Think its class 2 for Sigs. It used to be the case that you could depoly straight after CIC but those days are long gone.

Er just my 2p from limited experience, but from what I was told when I made enquiries at my local TA, if you currently have a reg officer application active at any stage of the process, then the TA cannot process an application for you.

Was told this about 3 months ago, so relatively up to date, but I don't obviously know that this is the case after you have passed AOSB, but it was what I was told when I asked them at pre-briefing stage.

The likelihood is that by following this course of action you would be delaying your entry to RMAS by at least two years for a benefit which would be slight at best. I would suggest that by going to RMAS asap, you will have the opportunity to get onto Herrick sooner than you would by following the TA route, and you wouldn't have stalled your officer career in the process.

If you were already a properly-qualified TA soldier - as opposed to an OTC cadet - and you had been asked to consider volunteering for a specific tour, then it might have been worth considering, but even then you would be introducing a year of delay into the commissioning process. My advice would have been 'no'.

Get properly trained and commissioned now and I guarantee that you will get as many op tours as you can handle afterwards.

Just passed my AOSB and am in my final few months of uni so I was intending to start at Sandhurst next Jan. However, I'm wondering if it's worth my while taking some time out before that, joining a TA unit as a jock and going out on HERRICK to get some experience?

Cheers guys, advice taken. I don't fancy taking a minimum of a couple of years out, so I'm going to go and have fun in the southern hemisphere for a couple of months before 2 months of beasting myself getting super fit for PCCBC...

Cheers guys, advice taken. I don't fancy taking a minimum of a couple of years out, so I'm going to go and have fun in the southern hemisphere for a couple of months before 2 months of beasting myself getting super fit for PCCBC...